William Senyo is co-founder and CEO of the Impact Hub Accra, the epicenter of the West African start-up scene. Prototypes are developed and built in the makerspace. He spoke with us about the initial difficulties as well as about Angela Merkel’s visit.

Young refugees at the Europaschule Utbremen are preparing for completing their secondary school studies in an occupational orientation class with an emphasis on the sciences. Aside from conducting experiments together, the students learn the German language.

All teaching materials on the Siemens Stiftung Media Portal are now available as Open Educational Resources (OER), which can be downloaded free of charge. But what makes that possible? We asked our expert, Dr. Franziska Frost, for an explanation…